Ilfenesh Hadera: Spike Lee Alum And DJ School Dropout

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🗓️ 28 February 2020

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Ilfenesh Hadera, from She's Gotta Have It, chats about growing up in Harlem, working with Spike Lee, and her new series, Godfather Of Harlem. This episode originally aired September 13, 2019.

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0:00.0	From NPR and WNYC, coming to you from the Bellhouse in beautiful Brooklyn, New York,
0:09.2	its NPR is our of puzzles, word games, and trivia, ask me another.
0:13.6	I'm Jonathan Colton, now here's your host, Ophira Eisenberg.
0:18.0	Hi everybody!
0:25.0	Thank you Jonathan.
0:27.7	We have a great show for you.
0:29.2	Four brilliant contestants are here to play our nerdy games.
0:31.6	They are backstage sowing the legs back onto their jorts in preparation for fall.
0:39.2	And one of them will be our big winner and our special guest is actor Ilfinish Hedera.
0:45.6	Yeah.
0:46.6	Ilfinish is in the reboots of she's got to have it and Baywatch.
0:53.4	She stars in the modern day versions of really old things.
0:58.6	That's what she's, yeah.
0:59.8	She's like the Beyond Burger of Actors.
1:02.8	Yeah.
1:04.8	Ilfinish, you heard right.
1:05.8	She starred in the reboot of Baywatch, which means she looks like a goddess.
1:14.0	And you lucky listeners get to hear her.
1:20.9	If you're like, what have I also seen her in?
1:22.9	The truth is, Ilfinish has starred in so many television shows and movies, but many
1:27.8	of them have the same titles as nightmares I've had.
1:33.4	Chicago Fire, deception, conviction, master of none, the punisher, the blacklist, and
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